We have a huge reservoir of memories of our years there, beginning when our youngest was 3 years old. There is nothing my kids love more than reminiscing of "the incident when..."
During that time, we created gardens, cut down mature trees, cleared rubbish, farmed animals, renovated the house inside and out. Earthworks, plantings, building, digging, sawing, all became part of our lives during this time. We became quite proficient cutting down 30+ year old pines, taking down a score of these around the house, as well as 200 15-year old pines. Let me tell you, the cutting down is the easy part! I learned how to put up a post-and-rail fence strong enough to keep in cattle and horses. We dealt with the joys and tragedies of birthing calves and lambs, hand raising both when orphaned. I hatched dozens and dozens of chicks on our kitchen bench. Watching a tiny being emerge from an egg that 28 days before was suitable for an omelet is quite incredible. There is nothing like the mystery of a 20g chick trusting an adult as their mother and sleeping in the palm of your hand!
I won't go further in this page into the dramas that we experienced, but here are a few photos of our lovely house and gardens. Everything was done on the tightest of budgets as it had to stretch 12 acres instead of 500 squares! But despite this it was a stylish and beautiful house.
The front entrance and garden
The back garden
The children's garden
'Crepuscule' down the driveway
Replacing the roof...up in clouds
The last garden I started working on
The front entrance hall
The kitchen
Through to the family room
...and then through to the dining room
The lounge
The little boys' room
My daughter's room
The spare room
The master bedroom
The back hall. Every farm need one.
The attic
The french doors in the bathroom lead out to the spa garden
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